On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:41:10PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote:
> I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly,
> probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab.
If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then
in means your drive is encountering errors.
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:09:08PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > You also know
> > that to change that policy you need to convince either the lists-masters or
> > the project as a whole. Abusing the lists-masters on -user won't help.
>
> Yes, it does. As I told Anand a person who approaches t
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:03:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> However, I am still doing the destination sorting via kmail, so I could
> pick d-u off before it checks the headers SA adds, but I see little or
> nothing to be gained by that in the real world.
>
> But that is one way I suppose. I
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:46:38AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Michael Marsh wrote:
> >Because not every user who has a question wants to agree to receive
> >hundreds of email messages a day as the price.
>
> Vacation. Pof, no emails. Imagine that.
I run a few mailing lists for local organiz
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:35:02PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jacob S wrote:
> >Since anybody can post to this list without being subscribed (witness
> >the spam we get), where is the problem? You simply subscribe under one
>
> I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote:
> Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
> unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that group
> and then run the "visudo" to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like
> this one:
>
> %wheel ALL=(ALL)
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:13:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> The best I get disabling dpms is 20 minutes with either:
> Option "BlankTime" "3600"
> in "ServerLayout"
>
> or -s 3600 in the start options for the server.
Have you considered simply turning dpms off? `xset -dpms` shou
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:36:20PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I've been away, but just before I went I guessed a solution. In
> /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation there is a series of files with names
> of programs containing not very informative contents. I guessed these
> might be expressio
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:35:13PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> if [ $(date -d tomorrow '+%m') -ne $(date '+%m') ]
> then
> echo 'today is the last day of the month'
> fi
[ $(date -d tomorrow '+%d') -eq 1 ] && echo 'last of the month'
This can also be done directly in your crontab:
[ $(dat
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I don't think it's coming directly from the *output* of the script. It
> seems to me that the script is doing something that now gets logged that
> used not to be logged. I think it must have to do with the
> configuration of logch
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote:
> WEEK_DAY=`date +\%A`
> 30 23 * * * mount /backup && mysqldump --password=FOOBAR --all-databases >
> /backup/alldb-${WEEK_DAY}.sql; umount /backup
>
> It's been working on RH system, but the Debian cron keeps refusing to do command
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Marco Kruijswijk wrote:
> All users of this server will
> be taken out of a MySQL Database through PAM, so I thought that it would be
> the most safe and easy-to-understand situation, when I remove all default
> users from passwd and only keep the most i
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:03:25PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Although I am using Debian for a long time now, I have some problems on a new
> installation:
>
> 1. mutt opens the mail folders of a user in read-only mode. How can I change it?
Are the mail folders in an NFS-mounted directory
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
> > inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
>
> On a clean install, level 2.
Bzzt! Wro
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:23:49PM +0100, dave selby wrote:
> I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the
> ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories
> to ftp.
If you have shell access on the other end, tar everything up into a
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:28:07AM -0500, David Krider wrote:
> Please note that I'm NOT trolling or looking to start a flamewar. It's
> just that it took me three tries to get Woody installed. I've heard that
> Sarge will have a new installer and a new manual.
In that case, don't worry about it.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:21:49PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> First of all, you get the wrong meaning for copyrighted. Free software is
> copyrighted. Linux, and all GNU softwares are copyrighted. Copyright software
> is not the opposite of free software, we use terms like non-free software,
>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:54:28PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:25:08AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > It would help if the listmaster was someone who actually *read* this list.
>
> Yeah, this listmaster-doesn't-read-the-list thing is puzzling me. I'd
> have thought rea
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does
> > > this. You
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:57:19PM +0100, Torquil Macdonald wrote:
> Does anybody know how I can, without having root privileges, selectively
> disable mozilla plugins that are installed system-wide. It would be very nice
> to disable the Flash plug-in.
And, on a related note, once Flash is disa
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:33:12PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> fun stuff... :-)
Oh, yeah!
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a
> > decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backups
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:02:58PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
> >Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a
> >decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backups will
> >finish fast, too.) My amanda server at work can easily run a week's
> >worth of backups without need
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2003, Glenn English wrote:
> > 1) tape - can easily back up the entire system (and a small network)
> > 2) DDS - others are faster, but they cost more
> > 3) amanda, amanda, and amanda - command line, cron-able, free, and very
>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:18:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >I disagree. Replies should go where the person sending the reply
> >wants them to go, with consideration for any request which may be
> >made by the poster of the message being
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:04:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's faily easy. The list managet (software or person) has to munge everything
> that looks like an email address so it becomes unusable.
Oooohhh... Even better! Now, if I find someone on the list that
wants to work on a proje
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:45:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> >>A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice.
> >Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice.
Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible?
--
The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the
White Hats over the past severa
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:00:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:16:20AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > ...and then there are the fruitcakes like me who use sloppy focus
> > without auto-raise and frequently choose to work in windows that
> > ar
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:57:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Regarding people's replies of "how does GIMP know which image you want to
> save ?", ask the same question to gedit or any other
> multiple-document-interface gtk/gnome app.
And there is your answer: GIMP is not an MDI app. It p
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:27:16AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> It's not totally unreasonable in a Mac environment, but it's entirely
> proposterous in Unix. Why? Very rarely do you find a window manager
> that isn't capable of focus-follows-mouse and auto-raise.
...and then there are the fruitc
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:26:55PM +, Gabriel Granger wrote:
> If you give me an example of what your seeing that you dont want
> logcheck to pick up on, i can give you the information needed to supress
> it from logcheck reports.
I suspect what he's complaining about is the hundreds upon hu
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:04:35PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I have a cron script and a line:
>
> ... wget ... -O ~/Base$(data +%H%M).gif
^ ^
> and I get the error
>
> /bin/sh: -c: line1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> /bin/sh: -c: line2: sy
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm looking for a calendar program (not a full groupware suite) that I
> can use from home and at work.
What do you intend to use it for?
> At home I use a mac, so I would need
> either something that makes the calendar web-accessible
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:12:13AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> and "telnet localhost pop3s" or https fails simply because the other end
> wont speak to ya.. :-) .. woulda been nice to see which pop3s server but
> oh well
Have you tried it with telnet-ssl?
--
The freedoms that we enjoy presentl
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:58:39PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
> I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to
> cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ?
Close... lpq tells you what's in the printer's queue, it doesn't
actually print anything. The c
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:31:17PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
> Is there anyway that I can disable suexec for a certain user or replace
> it? I would rather try to avoid a recompile if poss
AFAIK, suexec is all or nothing - either it applies to every user or
to no users. If you want to disable it g
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:52:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Specifically, this regards "window blanking" in "full screen" curses
> apps (like man(1), less(1) & vi(1), but not more(1)).
>
> When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the "screen" would not blank
> when I exited these type of apps;
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:52:44PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
> What about running X locally and starting the window manager remotely?
Doable, though I can't tell you offhand how to get the window manager
to run remotely, since I don't recall where it's started from.
> 1. less sensitive to NIC hiccu
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add
> an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.'
This is a sendmailism. exim will recognize changes to alias files
immediately a
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:40:04AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> Actually, miguel is the name of my machine, and it's already set as the
> 'qualify_domain'. Qualify_recipient is not set, so it should default to
> 'qualify_domain', according to the comments in /etc/exim.conf .
Is miguel in local_domai
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't
> >dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a "login screen". Sigh.
> >Unscheduled downtime.
> Isn't this a good example of why _not_ t
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
> Another possibility I've considered would be to not use XDMCP but
> instead NFS mount everything and invoke it from the client.
Yeah, that works pretty well, provided the client's RAM and CPU are
up to the task.
> I'm not
> concerned
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
> Another variable, just in case it will shed any light: I'm using a USB
> ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M; very small). I've heard in the past
> of problems with USB ethernet adapters disconnecting and causing
> problems, but even whe
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> However, if you trust people enough to enable
> XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot
> the machine.
Uh... No.
X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may
rely on a
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to "shutdown -r now" than holding the
> power button..
To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to
`/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now`, per /etc/inittab.
--
The freedoms that we
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0500, stan wrote:
> Is it possible that some mechanisim could be set up such that a package
> which has recieved a security related update in stable, could become the
> latest package for testing?
>
> I'm trying to think of a way to leverage the fact the securit
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:44:07AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I agree thta it is not -the only_ measuer of stability. However in this
> case, the stated uptime includes all apps (including X). So I think it's
> still a valid indication of the stability of the entire release (as used in
> this particular
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Desktops are mostly RedHat
> > 6 or so, with some potato, a very little woody, or X terminals
> > connected to a potato server. I have yet to receive a
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote:
> Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it
> acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and
> devlopment environment in it? Ancinet by modern standards.
Heh... I never can quite figu
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:36:12AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:45:27PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Questionable on the "any user" part (if it was clear-cut 'should not
> > be world-readable', why does debian default to 755 for non-
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:45:14PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> > Can anyone explain to me why /root has
> > default permissions of 700 on a clean
> > install?
>
> Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't wan
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:27:39AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > little detail that, in order to get them to do anything harmful, you
> > need root privileges. And once an attacker is root, the 750
> > permissions won't stop him anyhow. It only protects against people
> > who can't do any harm in t
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> > find /home -type l -exec chmod 777 {} \;
> Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time...
>
> I keep seeing this...
> {} \;
>
> ...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book,
> an
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:42:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin"
> and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be
> paged because something broke
...which, even if it doesn't break things (like another poster's
mention
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:05:37PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote:
> ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=258690, block=524360 Feb 24
> 04:02:51 consort kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> DataRequest Error }
> Feb 24 04:02:51 consort kernel: hda: read_intr:
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:30:04AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> i also read the documentation. it mentions that per-user settings is a
> security risk if spamd is run. so, i will prefer not to allow per user
> settings although i am the only user of the system.
>
> what file to i edit if per
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:16:37PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
> On February 21, 2003 11:24 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow,
> > it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow.
>
> I
for
> > spam. no use spamming it again
Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow,
it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow.
> whitelist_from *@lists.debian.org
That was my first thought, but, if you look at the headers of
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:56:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:59:02PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > IMO, this is a real shame... I always used host for 1-shot lookups
> > and nslookup for deeper troubleshooting or when I wanted an
> > interacti
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:25:19AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
> i seem to recall seeing that nslookup is deprecated. we're
> supposed to use dig or zone or dnsquery now. (probably there's a
> good reason, or maybe my other personality just made this all
> up.)
It is deprecated, or at least that's
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:56:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> can someone explain this to me:
>
> the /var/log/mailman/error logfile has permissions
> -rw-rw-r-- root list
^
> mailman's cron jobs run as list, mailman's web interface as www-data.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes
> through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or
> its Dialog-based menus) twice.
>
> Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong?
Glad t
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:37:05PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Fer'had Erdogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now.
> Always start by looking in the headers.
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:06:33PM +, Tim wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >What kind of file is it?
>
> A file used in compilation of audacity, for multi-language support. By
> the name of es.po. I'm going to post the whole thing and see what the
> dev says-
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:47:52PM +, Tim wrote:
> Quick question, I've been asked to post the header of a file. Fair
> confession, I'm an end-user not a developer, so don't know what is being
> referred to. How do I find this? Its not binary so I can post the
> entire file. And ls -l.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:24:16PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> I've got several ftp users at my server and i'm running out of disk space. I
> want to limit my users to a maximum of 50 megabytes. What's the way to set
> this?
Look up information on setting disk quotas.
--
The freedoms that
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:12:14AM +, Scalar wrote:
> Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few
> letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the
> list from other email?
Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but it's something
I've seen (heatedly) discussed he
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:22:05AM +, p wrote:
> 1) i hit "v" (for view);
>
> 2) then i hit, "s" (for "save");
>
> 3) then i give the email a file-
> name.
>
> i just get the body of the email,
> which is cool, of course, but i'd
> like to capture the headers with
> it.
If you also w
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only
> > place I know of that still uses it).
>
> mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the default,
I have, for quite some time, had trouble with my BIND installation
falsely claiming that certain domains don't exist. It tends to be
pretty consistent about them - anything under yahoo.com can be counted
on to display this, for instance.
The symptom, which is primarily noticable for outgoing emai
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Should I be concerned, or is this maybe part of portsentry or something
> similar?
That's exactly what it is. portsentry listens on every
commonly-recognized port that doesn't already have something running
there and reports any connec
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:58:21AM -0500, alex wrote:
> Has the Linux security bubble burst?
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013/1
I would say "no", for five reasons:
1) Langa suggests that part of the reason behind the current rise in
Linux security flaws being found is b
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:44:55PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote:
> I am looking for an approach to the problem of having multiple
> installations of debian on each computer on my lan that I use. While it
> is certainly reasonable to have a minimal install on each system,
> consisting of a basic debian
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:20:22PM +0100, Charlie Imbusch wrote:
> As far as I know Linux in general tries to use a lot of your ram to
> achieve best performance. It buffers data which have already been read
> from your hdd, for the case that these data are requested again.
> I hope it's not non-se
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory.
> Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
> something?
It's normal. You didn't say whe
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:26:24AM -0800, Robert Estes wrote:
> I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
> how to handle the bug reporting. I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
> this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ...
>
> Do I
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:50:23PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> The Subject about says it all. For the life of me I can't track this
> down. For some crazy reason, all apache processes cease to exist just
> after (approx) 6:25am. This is the section of the error.logs:
>
> [Sun Jan 5 06:25:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:38:04PM -0800, S Yuval wrote:
> My ViewSonic P810 monitor is unable to transfer from the X Windows to the
> Debian console, using Alt-F1, and displays an "invalid refresh rate"
> message. I am currently using a 60 Hz refresh rate and a 1280x960 pixel
> resolution. In Red
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:20:12AM -0600, Ray wrote:
> we have multiple machines here running debian, and to try to save bandwidth i
> followed the instructions for setting up rsyncing a debian mirror. while
> looking at it i noticed a few odd things, i don't know if they are a problem
> or sho
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:34:27AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> Active System Attack Alerts
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-2] Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13992.25 rows=1
>width=101)
> Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-3] -> Nested Loop (cost=1.77.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:11:00AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote:
> Yes, I usually clean once a while, but a recent upgrade neds 50+ MB and
> I;m short on space. I'll try the aforementioned recommendations.
Although moving your apt cache is probably the better solution, you
can also try this:
- `apt
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:42:44PM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
> apt-get stores downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. you can
> clean these out using "apt-get clean". I don't know whether apt-get
> will automatically clean out its cached packages when it need the space;
It will not.
I'm having some trouble with display of non-US characters in some
areas in mutt, specifically the 'from' field in the message list
display and in the message info bar at the bottom of the viewer. In
both places, I'll get "=?iso-8859-1?q?B=F6...". Within the headers
and body of the message in the
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:24:05PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the kernel/Documentation/devices.txt
> file.
>
> Any clues where this is coming from? There is nothing in /etc/modutils that
> refers to this device.
You might get some information from:
ls -
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty.
>
> What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I
> remove it in the kernel?
Multiple-disk device driver.
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:41:07PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Is there a way to disable CVS using the "Attic"?
None that I know of, short of hacking the source.
> When files are
> removed, I wish they would be deleted instead of moved.
The problem with this approach is that it prevents
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:44:02AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> Running a few dhcp clients ends up generating a lot of DHCPREQUEST
> messages. I'm not clear how to set the interval that the client sends
> those requests. I looked at man dhclient.conf but didn't see the
> setting. I tried set
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote:
> I thought making the user and give him/her a special shell, but can't
> find it.
You've got the right idea. Set the user's shell to /bin/false -
technically, he can still log in, but his shell will then immediately
exit without acce
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:58:59AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> these are questions that surface for me every time I do an installation
> and i'm still confused about them
> 1. qualify-domain and local_domains;a
> If I put my isp's domain, it works but if I send to somebody else at the
> same doma
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> How does that one work then?
Observe:
$ echo '#!/bin/bash' > foo.sh
$ echo 'echo "It runs"' >> foo.sh
$ cat foo.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "It runs"
$ ./foo.sh
bash: ./foo.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
$ bash foo.sh
It runs
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:02:10PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> > foreach my $name (param()) {
> >my @value = param($name);
>
> Are you sure you don't mean $value here?
Not necessarily. param() returns the first value associated with the
name whan called in scalar context or a list of all va
The situation:
- Debian server feeding out X sessions to various thin clients
- Database application with 6-user license
- 25-30 users who will be using this application (but not at the same
time - the 6-user license should be sufficient)
WINE seems to be very security-conscious and keeps its w
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:50:18PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Is there a nice simple way to have a single, solitary gnome applet
> standalone? Or perhaps some other mail notification thing that has
> support for IMAP and runs standalone?
Sounds like you want imapbiff
(http://bulldog.tzo.org/i
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:34:38PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ds> Quick and easy way to convince them: "Really? How's about I stand
> ds> here and watch you exploit it." Shouldn't take more than 5
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Before anyone brings it up, I know there should have been backups of the
> CVS repository. That said, I am in the following situation:
>
> 1) Machine alpha, which had the CVS repository, is temporarily
>unavailable (in a policy
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0700, nate wrote:
> tripped dozens of rules in my IDS and came back to me pissing their
> pants saying my SSH was vulnerable because it wasn't the absolute newest,
> took some time to convince them(had to talk to one of their engineers
> who understood what backp
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote:
> I pronounce "Debian GNU/Linux" as:
>
> "The One True Linux"
>
> So, what?
"Thuh" or "thee"? "Lin-nix" or "lie-nucks" or "lee-nooks"?
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - r
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:57:15PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> But back in 1993 when I first started using Linux I was using dd on my
> Sun to rawwrite Linux images onto floppy disks to take home, and I
> accidentally put the dd output to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/fd0
> ... goodbye, HD partitions. H
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:55:52PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Monday 21 October 2002 23:25, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > That is correct, just so long as you don't use any of the original
> > author/publisher's code, artwork, etc. If you create everything from
>
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